The two surviving brothers of the Bee Gees, one of the most popular bands in music history, are in talks with Steven Spielberg to direct a film about the band, reports Music-News.
Born in England, the Gibb family moved to Brisbane, Australia when the brothers were still children, and the youngest, Andy, was just a baby. In 1960, at the ages of 14 and 10, the eldest three Gibb brothers, Barry and twins Robin and Maurice, began to break into the music scene. It was only in 1966, as they were returning to live in England, that the brothers received word of their first number one single, Spicks and Specks, had topped the Australian charts.
In England, they met and signed with another Aussie, producer Robert Stigwood, who was instrumental, along with Ahmet Ertegun, in creating their disco sound and applying it to the Saturday Night Fever film soundtrack. It has been estimated that the Bee Gees’ record sales total more than 200 million, making them one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
Younger brother Andy Gibb enjoyed a successful solo career until his untimely death on March 10, 1988, just five days after his 30th birthday, from myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle due to a recent viral infection.
Following Maurice Gibb’s sudden death on January 12, 2003, Barry and Robin Gibb temporarily ended the group after forty-five years of activity. In 2009, Robin Gibb revealed that he and Barry Gibb had agreed that the Bee Gees would reform and perform again.
The brothers Gibb have given permission to use their original music in the film, hoping to memorialize their brother Maurice, and tell the story of one family’s pop music legacy.